I want to clarify one thing, while there were/are Andersons in both Sweden and the New World, any similarities between them and the fictional family in my three volumes are purely coincidental.

Having said this, the Anderson trilogy is written as a historical work. As a result, my characters will, from time to time, interact with real-life individuals. While their interactions will be highly plausible and even likely, they are still not real. With the exception of two family members that fought in the Civil War. I will discuss them further in later chapters.

To facilitate the telling of this story, I have instilled myself as the official chronicler of the Anderson family. I know that may confuse the reader some. It is just my way of telling the story in a realistic manner. By utilizing this technique, I am hoping that it will make it easier for you, the reader, to immerse yourself in the storyline. It is, after all, the purpose of the storyteller to make you lose yourselves in the tale.

In the first volume, I told the story in a more traditional manner by following a timeline. In the second volume, I changed it up by telling the story from the perspective of the two main characters. In part one, I changed the dialogue as the main character became older and more fluent. By telling the story in the first person, I am hopefully allowing the reader to feel what the characters were experiencing. To make Yua’s experiences as realistic as possible, I have read eleven books on sex and child trafficking. I have to admit that after reading each one of these books, I felt like I needed a shower. It is absolutely insane how little regard some people have for others.

To make Peter’s story more true to life, I have done extensive research on police work, including their training and education. I have also read several books written by retired police officers and detectives.

Even though this work is fictional, the experiences that Yua lived through, real children are experiencing around the world.

I hope you enjoy reading the Anderson Family Saga as much as I have in writing it. I found it a very enlightening and even heartbreaking experience.